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One reason, though not the only reason, Ron Paul didn't make a dent in the Republican primaries last cycle is because he spent much of his time criticizing the aggressive foreign policy interventions of a Republican President.

The blogger Allahpundit suggested just now that "Rand is seen as much more mainstream than Ron, I think. He might have reach beyond the Paul voters."

In any event, although he has the same suspicion of international entanglements, Rand Paul could define himself in opposition to Obama's wars, not Bush's -- a much more comfortable spot in a Republican primary.

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you guys are killing me. these people - bachmann, palin, trump, gingrich, rand - there all ego-trippin', media wh**es. when will you actually call them out for it? OTOH, they will push the primary so far, extreme right, that who ever winds up as the nominee will probably never be able to recover.

Ben,
It would appear you have not taken the time to understand Rand. My point? Both Rand and Ron oppose unconstitutional wars regardless of party leadership and/or president.
In fact during Ron's 2008 run Rand often came out to oppose W's wars.

Ben,
It would appear you have not taken the time to understand Rand. My point? Both Rand and Ron oppose unconstitutional wars regardless of party leadership and/or president.
In fact during Ron's 2008 run Rand often came out to oppose W's wars.

Allahpundit also ran with a story about Rand Paul and Libya that Ben is ignoring.
"On Wednesday, Paul, with little notice, attached an amendment to the small-business re-authorization bill. The amendment, which chastises President Obama for his actions in Libya, urges members to adopt the president’s own words as “the sense of the Senate.”
To make his point, Paul quoted, in the legislative language, from Obama’s 2007 remarks on the subject: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” According to Paul’s office, “the measure aims to put the Senate on record affirming Congress as the body with constitutional authority on matters of war.”"
You can see why Democrats working in the media would wish to hide this story, and ignore the president's own words on intervention.

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